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Fidel Castro Speaks Shortly After Taking Power in 1959.
This site built around a timeline, provides a wealth of information on the life of Fidel Castro covering the years 1925 - 2006. Also provides audio links to Castro speeches and related topics.
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Fidel Castro and Ed Sullivan
This site built around a timeline, provides a wealth of information on the life of Fidel Castro covering the years 1925 - 2006. Also provides audio links to Castro speeches and related topics.
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Fidel Castro Makes a Point at the United Nations.
This site built around a timeline, provides a wealth of information on the life of Fidel Castro covering the years 1925 - 2006. Also provides audio links to Castro speeches and related topics.
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Fidel Castro Looks Skyward.
This site built around a timeline, provides a wealth of information on the life of Fidel Castro covering the years 1925 - 2006. Also provides audio links to Castro speeches and related topics.
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Fundacao Banco Do Brasil: Projeto Memoria: Famous Brazilians (In Portuguese)
Biographical information for some of the most important thinkers, writers, and politicians in Brazilian history: Castro Alves, Monteiro Lobato, Rui Barbosa, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Juscelino Kubitschek, Oswaldo Cruz, Josue de Castro, Paulo...
A&E Television
History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
Digital History
Digital History: Cuba and the Bay of Pigs Invasion
In 1959, rebel leader Fidel Castro toppled Cuban dictator Fugencio Batista. In Washington, Castro told U.S. officials that "The [Cuban] movement is not a Communist movement. We have no intention of expropriating U.S. property, and any...
George Washington University
National Security Archive: Kennedy Sought Dialogue With Cuba
A collection of documents revealing the secret history of possible U.S. accommodation with Castro just before Kennedy's assassination, and afterwards with President Johnson. Among documents there is also an audio tape of a discussion...
New York Times
New York Times: Photographer's Journal: Three Days With Fidel
A video presentation of black-and-white photographs taken in Cuba, 1964. Richard Eder, foreign corespondent for the New York Times, and photographer Jack Manning capture Castro's celebrity status, supporters, and interaction with farmers...
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Green Left Weekly:day That Launched the Cuban Revolution
A rather uncritical article about the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The author is critical of the US policy against Cuba by only highlighting the perceived positives of the Castro regime and none of the negatives.
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Cuba, 42 Anos De Revolucion 1959 2001
Great summary, in Spanish, of the history of Cuba since 1959. This article quickly revisits the major events of the Cuban revolution and Castro's rise to power. It also highlights the main events of Cuban history from 1959 to 2001.
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Bbc: Raul Castro
An image of Raul Castro, current President of Cuba and brother of Fidel Castro
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Jose Castro House
Historic adobe home built by Jose Castro, Commandant General of Northern California. It is part of the San Juan Bautista Historic District.
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Fidel Castro at a Summit in Cordoba, Argentina, July 20, 2006
An NPR site that links to more than a dozen NPR reports on Castro's health, his significance to Cuba's past, and a Cuba without him in the future.
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Npr: Castro's Health and Cuba's Future
An NPR site that links to more than a dozen NPR reports on Castro's health, his significance to Cuba's past, and a Cuba without him in the future.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Cuba and the United States
Site is an Online NewsHour report on the relations between Cuba and the U.S. Trade, trade embargo, life in Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, and many more topics are discussed.
Council of Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations: Cuba
The Council on Foreign Relations provides pertinent information on Cuba. As part of an extensive website on terrorism, this article answers questions regarding Cuba, terrorism, and implications for the United States.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Ramon Saul Sanchez on Elian Gonzales
News transcript of an interview between Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the Anti-Castro Democracy Movement and an Australian news reporter about the Elian Gonzales case.
Other
Cuba Net: Marine Officer Wrote After Bay of Pigs
In the after-action report filed by Marine Col. Jack Hawkins following the Bay of Pigs, he writes that the only way to oust Castro would be with another attempt using overt intervention with U.S. military power.
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Saving Elian
In-depth examination of the Elian Gonzales episode, where a young Cuban boy was thrown into the headlines in 1999. Focuses on the anti-Castro Cubans and their opinions on the case.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: On the Brink of Nuclear War: Leadership and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Learning module uses current primary and secondary resources to help students understand the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis and assess the roles of Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro.
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